Settings on new models

[donplanar]

How do you change the settings UG uses anytime you start a new model? I am specifically looking at changing the palette to a customer specific one so that when you use the command "create new component" under assemblies, it uses the customers palette instead of the default one. I would like to make the new palette the default one for all new models while I am doing work for this customer also. Thanks for the help in advance.

 

[Xwheelguy]

Please always include the version of NX you're using when posting a question. Things change between versions.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.

 

[donplanar]

I am using NX2.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Not sure what you mean by 'Palette'? A 'Palette' in NX terminology are the 'tabs' that you can select down either the right-hand or left-hand side of the screen to get access to the Assembly and/or Part Navigators, the History list, user defined items Drawing and Modeling Templates (at least until NX 5) and Family Table parts, etc.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[donplanar]

click preferences then pick visualization, then pick the color palette tab. I have to open every new model and load the customers palette.

 

[JohnRBaker]

The 'color palette' is stored in the part file and does not automatically update when opening a legacy part file.

One thing you can do is created a 'Visualization Template' which can be used to reset all of the visualization settings in a old part file, updating it to the new standards.

First open a part file where all of the visualization setting are as you would like to see then set. Go to the Task Bar and Open a user-defined palette (if don't have one, go to Preferences -> Palettes... to create one) and with the cursor over the 'white area' of the palette, press MB3 and select the New Entry -> Visualization Template option and when the dialog comes up select the items that you wish the template to control, one of which can be to replace the .cdf file to the latest standard.

However, once this is done, while the color palette has been replaced the legacy objects will still carry the same color designations (color ID number) despite the fact that the colors are now all different. Therefore I developed a simple GRIP program that will go through after you've updated the Color Palette to the latest and edit the items in the piece part files so that they now properly reflect their original colors (see attached files).

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[Xwheelguy]

Do visualization templates exist in NX2?????

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yes, I just verified that they are supported in NX 2. Of course, you still have to create them yourself, but the mechanism is there and it's utilized just as I described it.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.